Ubuntu and Compiz Fusion

[Ed]

Compiz-Fusion should run the Emerald screen decorator - you need to 1)
make sure you don't have two sets of packages fighting over which runs
your desktop* 2) need to configure Compiz-Fusion to run the Emeral
decorator, and pick an Emerald theme. Do you have the CCSM to manage
Compiz-Fusion. Search YouTube for some very good tutorials.

*on Fedora the Compiz-Fusion that worked wasn't the one that got
installed from the Fedora repositories. I think this may be fixed as
the alternative repository was actually being run by a commiter to the
main Fedora repositories - or they just became more formally an extras
repo...

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:
> After a long battle with technology, Joshua Nalli wrote:
>> How come when I enable visual effects in Ubuntu, I [lose] the ability
>> to move the windows around and close or minimize them?  Is this just
>> because of compiz?
>
> Your compiz-fusion settings are incorrect in some way.  It sounds like your
> old window manager has died, and compiz hasn't started up correctly.
> Describe your problem more fully.  Have the titlebars and frames disappeared?
> If so, then yeah, compiz isn't running.  Each distro does compiz differently.
>
> In Gentoo, I had to either use the evil nvidia modules or the radeon modules
> (depending on whether the machine I was using had an nVidia card or an ATi
> card, you're on your own if you have an i810.)  I also had to edit
> the /usr/bin/compiz-manager script to make it do things properly.  It ended
> up doing:
>
> # this is what controls the way the frame+titlebars look
> # you can also use emerald or gtk-window-decorator
> kde-window-decorator --replace &
> # this is the actual window manager
> /usr/bin/compiz --replace ccp
>
> ...but you may not wish to run compiz, because it's still beta, and the eye
> candy is just eye candy even though "annotate" could be useful for some
> things.
>
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